SCHENECTADY FARM 

PICNIC AUG. 23 

On Saturday, August 23rd, the Schenectady County Farmers’ Picnic is to be held at Waldron’s Grove on the Duanesburgh road, one mile west of the government warehouses. 

The major part of the picnic will be its sports which shall consist of a milk drinking contest for girls, a pie eating contest for boys, backward race, pipe smoking contest, greased pig chase, horse races, (light and heavy) 50  yards, race for fat men, 100 yard races for boys, girls, women and men, horse shoe pitching contest for the championship of Schenectady County, a tug-o-war and a Ford start and stop race. 

THOMPSON’S LAKE 

The frequent showers of late are retarding the hay harvest but have started up other crops wonderfully. Lawns and pastures that were looking dead are beginning to look green again. 

DUNNSVILLE 

The highway department is placing danger and distance signs at the crossings on the concrete road. 

NEWS OUTSIDE THE DOOR 

[J. Otis Swift] 

Many of the lily ponds in Albany County, says Will W. Christman, were established by early nature-loving farmers who secured a root or two, tied them to a rock and threw them into the centers of lagoons, where they have multiplied in loveliness since. 

[From New York World, Aug. 6] 

VILLAGE NOTES 

Rev. Bergen B. Staats and son DeWitt Staats, of Kennedyville, Md., who were on a motor trip through the eastern part of New York state, as far as Kingston, extended their journey to Altamont and Guilderland Center on Monday and Tuesday. They called on old friends and members of the Helderberg Reformed church of Guilderland Center and the Reformed church of Altamont. Mr. Staats is pastor of the Presbyterian churches of Kennedyville and Morristown, located at the lower extremity of eastern Maryland. He is now having his annual vacation and took this opportunity of visiting his daughter, Miss Sadie Staats, at a sanatorium in Kingston, where she is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Mr. Staats wished to be remembered to his many friends here. 

MARIAVILLE 

A truck owned by “Woodchuck Simkins” of South Schenectady ran through the guard rail on the corner Sunday. 

NEW SCOTLAND 

Very early Wednesday morning all the barn buildings on the Bradford Allen farm were destroyed by fire. Mr. Walker, the present owner, had harvested nearly all of his hay, which was burned. It is hoped that the state will endeavor to buy the right of way now to straighten the road on such a dangerous curve. 

FOR SALE — The beautiful property of the late Frank R. Wilse, situated on Maple avenue, Voorheesville. This property consists of a good sized lot with a new bungalow fully equipped with water, electric lights and hot water heating system. Price six thousand dollars, cash. No brokers. D. Kisselburgh, executor, Ghent, N. Y.